Publications

Here’s a list of selected publications and recent conference presentations. Some are available as PDF for download or directly on the web, all others are available as PDF by contacting me at: per.storemyr@hotmail.com.

Titles of non-English publications are translated to English within square brackets, whereas peer-reviewed publications are marked with an asterisk (*)

Storemyr, P. (2017): Experimental archaeology: Building a limekiln in Western Norway. The Journal of the Building Limes Forum, 24, 22-27 (Read at my academia.edu page).

Storemyr, P. (2017): Experimental Lime Burning in a Freshly Built “Classic” Intermittent Lime Kiln at Hyllestad, Western Norway. Presentation at “Rediscovering Traditional Mortars”, International Conference, at the Restoration Workshop of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway, 7-10 September 2017. Presentation entirely based on this blog post of mine.

*Harrell, J. A. and Storemyr, P. (2013) [2015]: Limestone and sandstone quarrying in Ancient Egypt: tools, methods and analogues. Marmora – an international journal for archaeology, history and archaeometry of marbles and stones, 9, 19-43. More info in this blog post and on my academia.edu page

*Storemyr, P. (2014): A prehistoric grinding stone quarry in the Egyptian Sahara. In: Selsing, L. (ed.), Seen through a millstone. AmS-Skrifter 24 (Stavanger: Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger), 67-82. PDF at Academia.edu. More info about the volume here.

Storemyr, P. & Harrell, J. (2013): The Ancient Stone Quarry Landscapes of Egypt: Proposal for a New Serial World Heritage Site. In Ghabbour, S. (ed.), Proceedings of the twin workshops on harmonization of African World Heritage Tentative Lists, 16-18 March and 29-30 May 2010. Organized by the Egyptian UNESCO Commission for Education, Science and Culture, in Collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund, South Africa, 281-329. View at academia.edu

Storemyr, P. (2010): Attempts at Relative Dating of the Geometric Rock Art by the First Nile Cataract. Presentation at: The Signs of Which Times? Chronological and Palaeoenvironmental Issues in the Rock Art of Northern Africa, International conference, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Brussels, 3-5 June 2010. Download book of abstracts (PDF)

Heldal, T. & Storemyr, P (2000): Rock properties and wedging: Some ancient and modern examples. ASMOSIA VI – Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity. VIth International Conference, University of Venice, 15-18 June. Download poster as PDF (2,8 MB)